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Mania89 · 2025-01-03T23:27:56+00:00

I am mid 30s. Colour my hair, wear makeup, thread my eyebrows etc so not completely natural but my goodness what are people doing to their faces?! Young women who are beautiful now have so much injected into their faces that they cannot move them at all. I was looking back at photos in my mid 20s and was wondering why on earth did I worry about my looks at all. Hindsight is wonderful! And I am despairing that girls younger than this have already started to inject Botox and fillers. The world is going mad and don’t even get me started on weight loss injections for those who are not clinically obese! I have two daughters and really feel so worried for them up.

sushibelt · 04/01/2025 05:25

Bewareofthisonetoo · 04/01/2025 05:21

They look utterly ridiculous and will cringe when they look back at photos in the future.

Will they?

Princessponies · 04/01/2025 05:46

It’s a difficult one for me.

Im mid 30s and tried Botox. I had a horrible reaction/complication which lasted the best part of a year and required medical management on the NHS.

You would think I would be 1000% anti botox but part of me is sad that all of my friends have it and I might end up the old haggard one compared to them and their preventative measures. I’ve actually thought about trying it again which is ridiculous (I won’t!)
Ive also recently considered fat reducing injections in my chin because I hate how I have a genetically weak jawline. Again I haven’t, mainly because I’m scared and because my lovely daughter has the same and I don’t want her to think it’s wrong.

I don’t know why I’m so messed up with it though. Maybe everyone who has filler and botox thinks like me!

daisychain01 · 04/01/2025 05:49

MauveVelcro · 04/01/2025 02:35

So if you don't pump your face full of fillers, you're a 'frump'? Mmm, okay 😂

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I think @flashspeed was being sarcastic ....

Spanker · 04/01/2025 05:56

@Princessponies
You won’t end up the old haggered one…
does the price of ‘looking’ a certain way mean more to you than your precious daughter having her mummy??
just google how many woman have died having butt lift surgery alone in the past year
they may have started off with a little bit of lip filler here … a botox jab there… surgery is addictive just like drugs etc

catchthepigeon98 · 04/01/2025 05:57

It is sad how young women have now gone for this look and give it 20 years and they will regret it no doubt. The thing that worries me is the amount of people who do a 3 day course and call themselves medical professionals and start jabbing people with god knows what. I don’t understand how they are allowed to do that.

Monkeytoo · 04/01/2025 06:03

flashspeed · 04/01/2025 01:48

I totally get you OP, seeing women that don't conform to my standards pisses me off too. I'm so sick of seeing slightly overweight women in drab boring clothes who don't bother fixing their face and just let it age. When they turn around and I see jowls it's hard to not recoil in horror. With their roots showing and their boring mum shoes and their frumpy comfy coat I wonder what society is coming to and where class and elegance has gone

Oh wait, that would be rude, only frumps are allowed to judge another woman's choice.

I think it’s very simplistic to say that discussing society’s pressure and expectations on women’s bodies is only judging other women’s choices.

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Ceramiq · 04/01/2025 06:05

I agree, OP, and as a mother of a daughter I have always tried very hard to help her feel good about herself and her appearance without going for artifice.

friendconcern · 04/01/2025 06:06

Angrymum22 · 04/01/2025 05:02

The claim is that they gradually dissolved but that means that your face will gradually deflate like a party balloon. So you have to go back for regular top ups.
The target area is the cheek but the tendency is to fill everyone’s cheeks the same way without considering the underlying anatomy. So if you put full cheeks where there have never been full cheeks it’s going to look odd. It’s done to lift the face and remove jowls. But it often closes the eyes up.
Most practitioners are not cosmetic surgeons, anyone can inject filler because they are not a prescription only drug. After a couple of hours training anyone can inject them. The face is a complex area of the body with loads of muscle and fascia plains into which you can inadvertently inject fillers.

So when Clarabelle from Hair4you sells the idea to you, unless Clara is a qualified cosmetic surgeon, preferably head and neck ( defo not boobs) or a dentist who has extensive training in facial aesthetics & anatomy, then you are really taking a big risk.

The filler ends up where you inject, if you place it into or too near a blood vessel the pressure cuts of the blood supply killing the tissue it supplies. The tissue breaks down causing scarring sometimes leaving indents in the skin. Imagine having this done regularly the result, longterm, is like bad acne scarring. When you complain, Clara, who hasn’t a clue why these dents are appearing fills them with more filler causing even more dents
Every time a customer returns it is a bigger and bigger job.

Botox, on the other hand is a prescription only medicine so at least you have to be assessed by a professional who can prescribe the drug. But absolutely anyone can then inject it into you.

I have been approached by a number of beauticians to become a prescriber, I have no intention of becoming an injectorer merely because the whole process scares the living daylights out of me. I have no problem sticking needles into mouths and faces just not keen of the whole paralysis vibe.

But I just can’t see how someone with half a days training can possibly know what they are doing. Maybe it’s the blind ignorance of how badly it could go wrong means they are fearless. I suppose it looks easy on the plastic models they learn on.
Anyway since I would be the prescribing professional, if the shit hits the fan I would be held partly responsible so that’s a big no from me.

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This is such a good post and ought to be read by anyone thinking about have tweakments.

NewHabits2025 · 04/01/2025 06:09

It's disgusting and sad isn't it.

Purpleavocado · 04/01/2025 06:15

It's the sameness of the look I find really disturbing. There are a lot of young girls where I live with this look, and the all look the same - same lips, brows, eyelashes, hair, like clones of each other. Their individuality seems to have disappeared and been replaced with the fembot AI look. There are older women as well with very puffy faces, and to be honest I feel a bit sorry for them.

dontcryformeargentina · 04/01/2025 06:15

Anotherparkingthread · 04/01/2025 00:05

Frankly, while you're entitled to an opinion, they are also entitled to an opinion. It's their bodies. Their choice. They like it.

The only person who getting upset about it is you, and it isn't your business.

This...

BigDahliaFan · 04/01/2025 06:17

Anotherparkingthread · 04/01/2025 00:05

Frankly, while you're entitled to an opinion, they are also entitled to an opinion. It's their bodies. Their choice. They like it.

The only person who getting upset about it is you, and it isn't your business.

the long term effects aren’t known, there are unregulated places offering injections and fillers….there are lots of downsides to women doing this to their bodies.

I was watching the Godfather the other day and what struck me was how normal the women looked, some were obviously stunningly beautiful, but no fillers or trout pouts.

Seymour5 · 04/01/2025 06:21

flashspeed · 04/01/2025 01:48

I totally get you OP, seeing women that don't conform to my standards pisses me off too. I'm so sick of seeing slightly overweight women in drab boring clothes who don't bother fixing their face and just let it age. When they turn around and I see jowls it's hard to not recoil in horror. With their roots showing and their boring mum shoes and their frumpy comfy coat I wonder what society is coming to and where class and elegance has gone

Oh wait, that would be rude, only frumps are allowed to judge another woman's choice.

Lots of lovely, subtly made up, well dressed women of all ages dislike the trout pout look. They’re far from being frumps.

As a much older woman, I just think its sad that so many fresh faced younger women are taken in by the hype that lips resembling a baboon’s backside are attractive. Thankfully my teen DGDs are not impressed by the look.

BusterGonad · 04/01/2025 06:30

BigDahliaFan · 04/01/2025 06:17

the long term effects aren’t known, there are unregulated places offering injections and fillers….there are lots of downsides to women doing this to their bodies.

I was watching the Godfather the other day and what struck me was how normal the women looked, some were obviously stunningly beautiful, but no fillers or trout pouts.

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I agree, it's amazing watching older movies and seeing naturally beautiful women with no fillers, botox etc.

Privacynotguaranteed · 04/01/2025 06:36

It's the sameness of the look I find really disturbing

Yes, they all look exactly the same. I feel like a human amongst droids some days. Very dystopian!

Zita60 · 04/01/2025 06:38

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 04/01/2025 00:56

I approached a member of staff in a shop recently to ask for assistance and had to really stop myself from recoiling in horror as she turned round. Her lips were grotesque.

Also a really attractive woman at my work whose lips look awful now.

I actually find it quite distressing that so many feel the need to do this to themselves.

I actually feel queasy when I see someone with artificially plumped up lips. Probably something to do with the thought of stuff being injected into a sensitive area like the lips.

I think it often looks ridiculous.

ChicLilacSeal · 04/01/2025 06:39

Many younger women all seem to look the same these days. Flat centre-parted hair in tonged waves, dark drawn-on eyebrows, heavy eye makeup, and sometimes lip fillers.

It's not that they look bad, it's just VERY Identikit. I know we had the same in the Eighties with big hair and the Nineties with the Rachel and then the poker-straight look, but I still think there was more variation.

Also, no one has eyelids these days! 😂 Have you noticed? Many younger people use dark eyeshadow over the whole lid, and thick eyeliner on top, and then when you see flesh-coloured eyelids, it's quite a surprise! An example is Holly Willoughby, who looked really different after she adopted more natural eye makeup.

ChicLilacSeal · 04/01/2025 06:41

BusterGonad · 04/01/2025 06:30

I agree, it's amazing watching older movies and seeing naturally beautiful women with no fillers, botox etc.

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Marilyn Monroe had a ton of plastic surgery. Her pre-fame face looked nothing like her later self. She had something done to her eyelids, her autopsy listed a chin implant...she certainly wasn't natural.

westernlights · 04/01/2025 06:43

I wonder if friends/partner honestly say they look better without it.
I know my DP would be brutally honest, as would I if he choose to do something drastic on his face.

Although maybe it's a form of body dysmophia and comments get ignored.

Pat888 · 04/01/2025 06:49

Look up Marilyn Monroe young photos - no she doesn't look that different.

Tumblingthrough · 04/01/2025 06:59

I agree. All so fake.
One of my nieces has gone down this route.

ProfessionalPirate · 04/01/2025 07:03

I certainly don’t feel inadequate when I see how another woman has fucked up her face 😂

I do worry for my daughter though, and others of her generation. I’ll be very sad if she grows up feeling she has to inject her face with shite in order to fit in .

I don’t care what clothes other people wear, because no one is going to be permanently disfigured if they put on a miniskirt.

Superhansrantowindsor · 04/01/2025 07:03

It’s not a look that appeals to me but each to their own. They probably think I look plain and frumpy. The only thing I think about is it must be very difficult to grow old when so much time, effort and money is devoted to their appearance. Women over 40 with work done look like women over 40 with work done. They don’t look 25. I think it could be psychologically quite damaging to try to hold back the years which is pretty much impossible. It’s just a theory I have though and if they are happy then fair play to them.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 04/01/2025 07:07

Angrymum22 · 04/01/2025 05:02

The claim is that they gradually dissolved but that means that your face will gradually deflate like a party balloon. So you have to go back for regular top ups.
The target area is the cheek but the tendency is to fill everyone’s cheeks the same way without considering the underlying anatomy. So if you put full cheeks where there have never been full cheeks it’s going to look odd. It’s done to lift the face and remove jowls. But it often closes the eyes up.
Most practitioners are not cosmetic surgeons, anyone can inject filler because they are not a prescription only drug. After a couple of hours training anyone can inject them. The face is a complex area of the body with loads of muscle and fascia plains into which you can inadvertently inject fillers.

So when Clarabelle from Hair4you sells the idea to you, unless Clara is a qualified cosmetic surgeon, preferably head and neck ( defo not boobs) or a dentist who has extensive training in facial aesthetics & anatomy, then you are really taking a big risk.

The filler ends up where you inject, if you place it into or too near a blood vessel the pressure cuts of the blood supply killing the tissue it supplies. The tissue breaks down causing scarring sometimes leaving indents in the skin. Imagine having this done regularly the result, longterm, is like bad acne scarring. When you complain, Clara, who hasn’t a clue why these dents are appearing fills them with more filler causing even more dents
Every time a customer returns it is a bigger and bigger job.

Botox, on the other hand is a prescription only medicine so at least you have to be assessed by a professional who can prescribe the drug. But absolutely anyone can then inject it into you.

I have been approached by a number of beauticians to become a prescriber, I have no intention of becoming an injectorer merely because the whole process scares the living daylights out of me. I have no problem sticking needles into mouths and faces just not keen of the whole paralysis vibe.

But I just can’t see how someone with half a days training can possibly know what they are doing. Maybe it’s the blind ignorance of how badly it could go wrong means they are fearless. I suppose it looks easy on the plastic models they learn on.
Anyway since I would be the prescribing professional, if the shit hits the fan I would be held partly responsible so that’s a big no from me.

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This should be a pinned post on S&B. Scary stuff.